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Mark Lipton
May 1, 20223 min read
Another Mint Julep?
I want to live my life with the optimism of the person who left my daughter Buck Wheat a one-minute and 45-second long voice mail. THE...
Mark Lipton
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Calling Elon Musk!
At the age of 12, Elon Musk sold the code to a video game he had written called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500....
Mark Lipton
Apr 17, 20223 min read
Less Than Halfway There!
On June 19, 1907 when my great-grandfather Beny Gershkowitz announced his intention to become a citizen of THE United States, immigration...
Mark Lipton
Apr 10, 20223 min read
It Happens in Stamford Too!
It’s said that “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” The riff, a homage to the debauchery and vice which Vegas is known for. But with...
Mark Lipton
Apr 3, 20223 min read
It's In Every Can!
At 24-years old my daughter Buck Wheat is lamenting her failure to achieve the American dream of home ownership. Some research on Tik Tok...
Mark Lipton
Mar 20, 20222 min read
It's Up to You New York!
Two days in advance of spring’s official blossoming, late-winter sun gave Stamford a dose of Vitamin D reminiscent of the warmest season....
Mark Lipton
Mar 13, 20222 min read
It's All Relative
With his theories of special and general relativity published in 1905 and 1915 respectively, the works of Albert Einstein replaced those...
Mark Lipton
Mar 6, 20222 min read
It Was a Supply Chain Issue
Many independent paint dealers engage in outreach to the designer community as part of their regular marketing efforts. Local designers...
Mark Lipton
Feb 27, 20223 min read
Hey! Where You From?
While paint history drips all over the Lipton side of the family, paint is only half the story! Actually, only a quarter. Another quarter...
Mark Lipton
Feb 20, 20222 min read
It Must Have been a Good Bloodletting
History.... On the third Monday in February each year the United States honors all 46 individuals who have served the country as its...
Mark Lipton
Feb 13, 20223 min read
Funny You Should Ask!
A 24-years-old my daughter Buck Wheat is no longer obligated to listen to her father’s advice on life management; THE kid more than old...
Mark Lipton
Feb 6, 20223 min read
All This Can Be Yours!
On February 1st the nation’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot announced that they will endeavor to hire an additional 100,000...
Mark Lipton
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Going Mobile
Nor'easters, the storms which develop over the eastern-third of the United States before surfing up the continent's right coast and off...
Mark Lipton
Jan 23, 20224 min read
And One Out of Three is Worse!
In 1974 a 27-year-old song writer named Jim Steinman penned a musical about a futuristic Peter Pan. A rock and roll homage to the boy...
Mark Lipton
Jan 16, 20223 min read
Save Muresco!
In 1991 when I published my first column in the Paint Dealer, it was hand-delivered to the 15,000 dealers and industry-mates who...
Mark Lipton
Jan 9, 20223 min read
Can I Call You Mike?
“Next year, remind me not to get so carried away when I decorate the house for Christmas” I heard her grumble as she laid the nutcrackers...
Mark Lipton
Jan 2, 20222 min read
Happy Birthday Buck!
Buck Wheat wafted into Stamford last week; the trip just long enough to say that she didn’t have time to stay! The three-day slide...
Mark Lipton
Dec 26, 20213 min read
THE Holiday Tradition!
For the second time in as many years the coronavirus beat Santa down the chimney. The virus which causes Covid not waiting for Rudolf to...
Mark Lipton
Dec 12, 20212 min read
Putting My Feet Up
If there was one thing I learned growing up in my mother's house, it was that she'll never get bored with telling her children how to...
Mark Lipton
Dec 5, 20214 min read
Mister October!
The strikeout is baseball's emblem to futility. Whether by "swing and a miss" or by watching the ball cross home plate to the umpire‘s...
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